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The Nevada State Athletic Commission has removed marijuana from its list of banned substances, and Kansas and its athletic commission are looking to follow suit.
Kansas also removes cannabis as suspendable offense
Following the path blazed by other commissions–which started with the precedent set by marijuana use advocate, and former Ultimate Fighting Championship talent Elias Theodorou in Canada–the commission is moving to an impairment test. If a fighter is impaired they cannot compete. Other than that, trace marijuana in a fighter’s system on fight night is not considered a doping violation.
As reported by MMAFighting, “In a unanimous vote by the Nevada Athletic Commission on Wednesday, marijuana was removed from the list of performance-enhancing drugs banned for athletes, and they will no longer face any discipline for a positive test. “
As news of this development broke, the Kansas Athletic Commission took to Twitter to note that they have also changed their policies for marijuana presumably falling back on the impairment test and nothing else.
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